Inadequate Prison Health Care: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The video discusses the state of healthcare in jails and prisons.

Incarcerated individuals are entitled to receive adequate healthcare under the Constitution.

Numerous investigations have revealed that healthcare in prisons is severely lacking and poses significant risks to prisoners.

Prisoners are given terrible advice and false information about healthcare.

The consequences of poor prison healthcare are becoming more dire with the aging prison population.

Private companies now provide prison healthcare, but their promises often fall short.

⚠️ Prison healthcare negligence led to the death of a prisoner who complained of chest pains.

💔 Contractors in the prison healthcare industry often provide substandard care due to financial incentives.

💰 The companies in the prison healthcare industry have fixed dollar amount contracts, leading to insufficient funding for proper care.

The profit motive in private prison healthcare leads to corner-cutting and outrageous policies.

Switching from state care to private providers in Arizona resulted in increased costs and poor quality of care.

Contractors like Wexford and Corizon have provided inadequate healthcare in Arizona's prisons.

🏥 Arizona's prison healthcare system, run by a private company, provided abysmal care to inmates, including injecting McDonald's sugar into a woman's wound.

⚠️ Corizon, the company responsible for prison healthcare, repeatedly refused to provide timely medical treatment, resulting in horrific consequences like delayed cancer diagnosis.

💔 A man with only 10 months left on his sentence for vehicle theft died from untreated kidney cancer due to the negligence of the prison healthcare system.

⚖️ The prison healthcare system in many states has a consistent pattern of substandard care and negligence.

💰 Despite the poor performance, healthcare providers still receive substantial bonuses and continue to operate.

🔄 States often rotate between a limited number of providers, none of which effectively meet the needs of prisoners.

🔑 The options for prison healthcare are inadequate, and it is primarily due to indifference towards prisoners.

🔒 Outsourcing prison healthcare to private companies leads to appalling deficiencies, but government-run healthcare would provide some oversight.

💡 Addressing the larger issues of overcrowding, long sentences, addiction, and mental health in prisons is necessary to improve healthcare.

🌎 The lack of universal healthcare and prison abolition are integral to understanding this issue.

😔 The US fails to guarantee good healthcare and unnecessarily incarcerates many, resulting in needless deaths.